On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:50:01AM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> I don't get why someone would want to edit ChangeLogs. Could you list >> some use-cases besides editing of typos? > One that I have seen before was the change of a URL for users to migrate > their data, when upstream changed the URL. The URL in question was in > the ebuild and the changelog. >
This is not a case for editing of ChangeLogs. I see three standard ways for this information to be conveyed, in decreasing order of likelihood of the user reading it: (1) A Gentoo news file (2) The ebuild itself via elog/ewarn (3) The ChangeLog entry which changed the URL in the ebuild In any case, ChangeLogs have always been historical records of the changes that occurred in a package. What people seem to want is a hybrid of ChangeLogs and NEWS files. I don't see how the costs of this (inevitable merge conflicts, duplicated information, increased git tree size) outweigh the benefits (the rare user who looks at the ChangeLog but not the ebuild). -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
